Mattress.



PATBNTBD MAY 19, 1903.

MATTRESS.

APPLIOATIQN FILED JULY 19. 1902.

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BY p f www? ATTORNEY UNITED STATES Patented May 19, 1903.

CHARLES B. MEEKER, OF WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO RUFUS WAKEMAN, OF SAUGATUCK, CONNECTICUT.

MATTRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters- Patent No. 728,594, dated May 19, 1903.

Application tied July 19, V1902. semina. 116,199. (remodel.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. MEEKER, a citizen of the United States, and a Aresident of Vestport, in the county of Fairfield and of cotton, wool, or other like unwoven mate-- i rial placed upon a section of pliable fabric,

glazed cotton, dac., and the ends'of such section rolled up in the form of a double scroll, one of said scrolls resting against the top of the other in vertical alinement, thereby giv-v zo ing greater resiliency than a single roll could possibly do. Besides, the binder will tend to keep the two scrolls in such vertical alinement and will also separate the cotton or other like material,so that it will not stick or adhere together.

To enable others to understand my invention, reference is had to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a broken perspective 3o View of a mattress, showing a portion of a series of double-scroll sections therein. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective View of one of the scroll-sections and broken view of the binding-cords. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of a section partially rolled. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the first operation necessary in constructing a mattress-section. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a section, partially-rolled up,

where the binder is shorter than the layer of 4o filling material.

Its construction and operation are as follows:

l represents the binder, which may consist of any suitable material sufficiently pliable to roll up and will prevent the raw or un- Woven cotton sticking or adhering together when the two scrolls lie one upon the other.

sheath of fabric. vare completed, they are placed side by side,

In forming the mattress-section the bind- I Ying-strip lis laid open, as shown at Fig. 4, lwhich strip isiwide enough to represent the 5o vlength of a complete section.

2 is a layer of raw cotton or other like material placed upon the binding-strip. Then the rolling process is begun at each end, as shown at Fig. 3, and is continued until the scrolls 3 and 3CL meet 55 at the center, as shown at Fig. 2. To prevent unwinding of the sections While being handled preparatory to being placed in the mattress-cover 4, the tufts 5 could be used. It will be observed that the filling material 2 is 6o so separated by the binder l that matting or ,packing of such filler is effectually prevented, while the winding or rolling is sufliciently I open to give Athe proper resiliency or spring. This peculiar form of double winding or rolling up of the material from each end to make one of the mattress-sections not only prevents packing or matting, but it Jforms virtually a double section placed in vertical alinement one above the other', so that a greater resili- 7o ent eect isA produced than if this double scroll were rolled into a single section from .one end only or the same amount of lling material were placed in a cylindrical tube or When the scroll-sections with the scrolls of each section in vertical ,alinement,` and are then placed in the mattress-cover 4. These several sections may, if required, be tied together by the tape or 8o cord 6 passing between the vmeeting faces of the scrolls and through the vertical section -of the filling material and binder.

bled scroll-sections, each section comprising Signed at Bridgeport, in thel county of Fairan outside binder and an overlying resilient eld and State of Connecticut, this 20th day filling material, the ends of each section beof June, A. D. 1902.

ing formedinto rolls or scrolls arranged one CHARLES B. MEEKER. against the other in vertical alinement, Witnesses:

means for connecting said rolled ends to- GEORGE W. FINN,

gather, substantially as described. S. J. CHAFFEE. 

